Shade-roller and curtain bracket.



PATENTED JUNE 14, 19 04.

0. MIGHAELS. SHADE ROLLER AND CURTAIN BRACKET.

APPLIDATION FILED JUNE 20, 1903.

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UNITED STATES Patented June 14, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

CHRISTOPHER MICHAELS, OF CALUMET, MICHIGAN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 762,594, dated June 14, 1904.

Application filed June 20, 1903. Serial No. 162,419. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHRISTOPHER MICHAELS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Calumet, in the county of Houghton and State of Michigan, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Shade-Roller and Curtain Brackets, of which the following is a specification.

This invention is a combined shade-roller and curtain-bracket, the object being to pro vide a simple combination device which can be quickly and easily attached to the windowframe without the use of screws or nails; and another object of the invention is to provide a combination-bracket formed from a single piece of metal.

WVith these objects in view the invention consists in the novel features of construction hereinafter fully described, and pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings forming part ofv this specification, Figure 1 is a perspective view showing the practical application of the invention. Fig. 2 is a detail perspective view showing one of the brackets. Fig. 3 is a detail perspective view showing the other bracket. Fig. A is a top plan view. Fig. 5 is a plan View of the blank from which the combination-bracket is folded.

It will of course be understood that combination-brackets are made in pairs, so that the fixture can be used in connection with the ordinary construction of spring-roller now in common use. The combination-bracket comprises a horizontal bracket-arm A, the outer end of which is curved, as shown at A, to provide a suitable seat for the curtain or drapery pole B. The rear end of the horizontal bracket-arm A is connected to a top plate C, which is adapted to rest upon the top of the window-frame and is provided at its rear end with downwardly-extending barbs or prongs C, which are adapted to be forced into the top of the window-frame. A depending arm D extends downwardly from the top plate C and carries the shade-bracket E at one side thereof, said shade-bracket being integral with the depending arm D, and, as before stated, these shade-brackets are arranged to receive the ordinary spring shaderoller now in use, and one bracket is provided with the slot E, while the other one is provided with the round opening E The lower end of the depending arm D is provided with a rearwardly-extending barb or prong D, which is adapted to be forced into the face of the Window-frame, the barbs or prongs C and D serving to securely hold the combination-bracket in place, thereby avoiding the use of nails or screws for the purpose of connecting the bracket to the'window-frame. The prongs or barbs C are first inserted in the top of the frame and driven home, and the barb or prong D is then forced into the front face of the frame, and as the entire device is made of thin metal this operation can be easily accomplished.

It will thus be seen that I provide an eX- ceedingly cheap and simple construction of combination-bracket, which can be punched from a single piece of metal and quickly and easily bent into the proper shape.

Having thus fully described my invention, What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A device of the kind described comprising the horizontal bracket-arm, thedepe-nding arm, said depending arm having a shadebracket integral therewith and projecting from one side thereof, a plate for connecting the horizontal bracket-arm and depending arm, said plate having barbs at its rear end, and a barb arranged at the lower end of the depending arm, the barbs at the rear end of the plate being arranged substantially at right angles to said plate and the barb at theend of the arm being arranged at a right angle to said arm, substantially as described.

2. A device of the kind described formed of a single piece of metal and consisting of the horizontal bracket-arm, the top plate, depending arm, the horizontally-projecting shadebracket, the downwardly-extending barbs arranged at the rear end of the connecting top plate, and the rearwardly-extending barb arranged at the lower end of the depending arm, substantially as shown and described.

CHRISTOPHER MICHAELS.

WVitnesses:

JOHN J. ELLIs, Jr., FRED MoLI'ron. 

